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What Price Honesty?

1981 1h 29m Action List
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Danny Lee, Jason Pai and Sun Chien play newly-recruited law enforcers whose crime-fighting is hampered by their corrupt superiors, in this period-set martial arts thriller.

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Audience Member I didn't really care for this martial arts picture all that much and I think that was primarily due to the amount of violence directed towards women. I recently saw another Shaw Brothers film that had a lot of this as well, which was something I hadn't seen a lot of before in Shaw Brothers pictures, but maybe it was more prevalent in martial arts films of the1970s than I was aware of. The story follows a group of rookie cops (period martial world cops who carry swords) on their first assignment, where encounter corrupt officials and dirty cops, but want to remain honest and upright. It's not a bad set-up and is kind of a welcome change from the standard martial arts revenge driven plot lines, but it's not exactly "Serpico" and there really weren't that many fight sequences, so outside of typically decent Shaw Brothers production values, there isn't a lot to recommend here. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Danny Lee, Jason Pai and Sun Chien play newly-recruited law enforcers whose crime-fighting is hampered by their corrupt superiors, in this period-set martial arts thriller.
Director
Hao-chuan Yuan
Producer
Mona Fong
Screenwriter
Kuang Ni, Hao-chuan Yuan
Genre
Action
Original Language
Chinese
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 23, 2018
Runtime
1h 29m